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Cracking the Top Fifty!

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Published: May 8, 2025 21:26

I’ve now been blogging for nearly twenty years—through five presidential administrations, my own moves from Waterloo to MIT to UT Austin, my work on algebrization and BosonSampling and BQP vs. PH and quantum money and shadow tomography, the publication of…

Opposing SB37

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Published: May 6, 2025 18:21

Yesterday, the Texas State Legislature heard public comments about SB37, a bill that would give a state board direct oversight over course content and faculty hiring at public universities, perhaps inspired by Trump’s national crackdown on higher…

Quantum! AI! Everything but Trump!

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Published: May 1, 2025 03:16

Grant Sanderson, of 3blue1brown, has put up a phenomenal YouTube video explaining Grover’s algorithm, and dispelling the fundamental misconception about quantum computing, that QC works simply by “trying all the possibilities in parallel.” Let me not futz…

Fight Fiercely

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Published: April 24, 2025 11:48

Last week I visited Harvard and MIT, and as advertised in my last post, gave the Yip Lecture at Harvard on the subject “How Much Math Is Knowable?” The visit was hosted by Harvard’s wonderful Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (CMSA),…

I speak at Harvard as it faces its biggest crisis since 1636

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Published: April 15, 2025 17:22

Every week, I tell myself I won’t do yet another post about the asteroid striking American academia, and then every week events force my hand otherwise. No one on earth—certainly no one who reads this blog—could call me blasé about the issue of…

My most rage-inducing beliefs

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Published: April 14, 2025 15:42

A friend and I were discussing whether there’s anything I could possibly say, on this blog, in 2025, that wouldn’t provoke an outraged reaction from my commenters. So I started jotting down ideas. Let’s see how I did. Pancakes are a delicious…

Theoretical Computer Science for AI Alignment … and More

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Published: April 10, 2025 22:32

In this terrifying time for the world, I’m delighted to announce a little glimmer of good news. I’m receiving a large grant from the wonderful Open Philanthropy, to build up a group of students and postdocs over the next few years, here at UT Austin, to do…

In favor of the morally sane thing

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Published: April 3, 2025 16:15

The United States is now a country that disappears people. Visa holders, green card holders, and even occasionally citizens mistaken for non-citizens: Trump’s goons can now seize them off the sidewalk at any time, handcuff them, detain them indefinitely…

Tragedy in one shitty act

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Published: March 31, 2025 04:26

Leftist Students and Faculty: We’d sooner burn universities to the ground than allow them to remain safe for the hated Zionist Jews, the baby-killing demons of the earth. We’ wi’ll disrupt their classes, bar them from student activities, smash their Hillel…

On the JPMC/Quantinuum certified quantum randomness demo

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Published: March 26, 2025 21:52

These days, any quantum computing post I write ought to begin with the disclaimer that the armies of Sauron are triumphing around the globe, this is the darkest time for humanity most of us have ever known, and nothing else matters by comparison. Certainly…